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ADDRESS
BY
DAVID M. FURCHES,
CHIEf JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Delivered at the Masonic Picnic
given for the benefit of the
Oxford Orphan Asylum.
MOCKSVILLE, N. c., AUGUST 8TH, 1901.
[Published by request of the Committee of Invitation, and the andience,
expr .. ssed by a rising vote,]
Ladies and Gentlemen :
I have not come here to-day, to make you you a speech;
but, like Rip Van Winkle, returned to myoId home after
an'absence of thirty-five years, not entirely "myself," to ask,
"vVhere's Nicholas Vidder?" "He is dead." "Where's
Brom Dutcher?" " Oh! he went off to the army, in the
beginning of the war." "Where's Van Bummel, the
school master?" "He went off to the war, too; was a
great military general."
Like Rip Van Winkle, I may ask, where are myoid
friends? Where's Col. Austin? Where's Ephriam Gaither?
Where's Col. March? Where's Braxton Bailey? Whe~e's
A. M. Booe? Where'-s Dr. J. F. Martin? Where's J. M.
--e.

ADDRESS
BY
DAVID M. FURCHES,
CHIEf JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Delivered at the Masonic Picnic
given for the benefit of the
Oxford Orphan Asylum.
MOCKSVILLE, N. c., AUGUST 8TH, 1901.
[Published by request of the Committee of Invitation, and the andience,
expr .. ssed by a rising vote,]
Ladies and Gentlemen :
I have not come here to-day, to make you you a speech;
but, like Rip Van Winkle, returned to myoId home after
an'absence of thirty-five years, not entirely "myself," to ask,
"vVhere's Nicholas Vidder?" "He is dead." "Where's
Brom Dutcher?" " Oh! he went off to the army, in the
beginning of the war." "Where's Van Bummel, the
school master?" "He went off to the war, too; was a
great military general."
Like Rip Van Winkle, I may ask, where are myoid
friends? Where's Col. Austin? Where's Ephriam Gaither?
Where's Col. March? Where's Braxton Bailey? Whe~e's
A. M. Booe? Where'-s Dr. J. F. Martin? Where's J. M.
--e.